Thelma and Louise kick ass
"Thelma and Louise" was the first movie that we've watched in this class that I actually enjoyed, and I definitely think it had positive feminist undertones. The scene that I will focus on is last one when Thelma and Louise drive their car over the cliff of the grand canyon- they chose death over being arrested and incarcerated. Symbolically, they chose freedom over control. They did not feel guilty for killing that man who was raping Thelma, and did not feel like they should surrender to the police (the dominant white male) and thus, seeing that their only option out of the inevitable physical control by the power structure, they killed themselves. They chose agency over domination. Unfortunately their agency led them to death, but the whole reason why they were forced to make that decision in the first place was because of a lack of agency in their lives (ie: Louise had been violently abused by a man in Texas, and Thelma was involved in an extremely oppressive marriage and had been sexually harassed by a man). This choosing of agency over domination is, in a sense, my definition of feminism: women must, in order to be socially, politically, and economically equal to men in every way need to obtain the power to make their own decisions and the resources to enact them.